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How to pronounce thug in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, tough, toughie
Type of criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
Has types bully

Examples of thug

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Please the thug element of tangelo park, please stay away we dont want you here.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Obama is a combination of leftist radical ideologue and Chicago thug politician.
From the washingtontimes.com
Like many on the progressive left, Mr. Obama is an anti-American political thug.
From the washingtontimes.com
Courtesy of Andrew, of course, who's been on it when it comes to the thug-watch.
From the theatlantic.com
But please, if you're going to speak publically, don't be such an ignorant thug.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Dave, this guy is a thug in a football shirt and an accident waiting to happen.
From the expressandstar.com
Casual fans will lose interest rapidly as scandals and the thug element thrive.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
A thug breaks into the home brandishing a sword and smacks Mary across the cheek.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Bad boy Doug for calling someone Han thug and apparently a hermaphrodite no less.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Hood: an aggressive and violent young criminal
  • Tony Hawk's Underground, abbreviated to THUG, is a skateboarding video game, available for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Xbox platforms released in 2003. A PC version was released exclusively in Australia as a budget release in 2005. This version was ported by Beenox.
  • (THUGS) T.H.U.G.S. is the debut solo album by rapper Flesh-N-Bone from the rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony this album was made in honor of Reginald Clairville. The album was released on November 19, 1996, on Mo Thugs Records and Def Jam Recordings. ...
  • Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali u0920u0917u094Du0917u0940 u1E6Dhaggu012B; Urdu: u0679u06BEu06AFu200E; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: u067Au0648u06B3u064Au060C u067Au06B3u200E; Kannada: u0CA0u0C95u0CCDu0C95 thakka) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across South Asia for six hundred years...
  • (The Thugs) The Thugs was a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of "The Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony and Tracy Smothers. The team wrestled in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. It debuted on March 23, 1995 and existed until SMW's final show held on November 26, 1995.
  • A criminal who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire; One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her
  • Thugly is a purple dinosaur-like monster who is the boss of Donkey Kong Island's Cliff area in Donkey Kong Country Returns. It is related to Mugly and was controlled by Xylophone to fight Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.
  • Member of a brotherhood of murderous highway robbers.
  • ([[Peggy Lee Leather]) - Heel - Biker gimmick, leader of "Harley's Angels". Trademark moves: Chokeslam, Squash.